Gun-stock.



L. F. KENNEDY.

GUN STOCK. APPLICATION FILED JULY 1 1909.

Patented Nov. 9, 1909.

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GUN-STOCK.

Application filed July 14, 1909.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE F. Klin- NEDY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGun-Stocks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the stocks of selfloading rifles which employindependent clips for holding the cartridges; and its main object is tosupply the stock with a chamber for storing one or morereserve clips.This object I accomplish by providing a suitable pocket in the butt ofthe stock and a corresponding opening in the buttplate which is closedby a spring-operated cover hinged to the butt-plate. In this way the gunitself is made the carrier of the extra magazines which may be readilytaken out and substituted for an empty magazine at the breech inposition for firing.

My improvements are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the butt-end of agun-stock equipped with my improvement. Fig. 2 is an end elevationviewed from the left of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows the butt-plate detached andviewed from the inside. Fig. 4: is a vertical section of the butt-plateon the line w-w of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section of the same on theirregular line cc-cc of Fig. 3. And Figs. 6, 7, and 8 are transversesections of the butt-plate and cover on the line e-2 of Fig. 3, butshowing the cover plate in different positions.

In the drawings 1 designates a gun-stock, and 2 the ordinary butt-platesecured to the stock by screws 3. In the stock a recess 1 is formed ofsuitable dimensions for receiving one or more separate magazines orcartridge clips 5 that are adapted for use in firing the gun. The recessmay be relatively deep and narrow, as indicated in the drawings. In thebutt-plate an opening 6, having a little greater width and height thanthe pocket 5, is out, and is closed by a cover 7.

The cover plate 7 has formed on one side midway of its length a lug 8 ofsubstantially rectangular shape and projecting inwardly from the face ofthe plate; and the butt-plate is provided with a slot 9 for looselyreceiving the lug 8. The butt-plate is also provided with a pair ofstuds 10 and .Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1969.

Serial No. 507,516.

11 adjacent to the slot 9, and through these studs and the cover lug Sis passed a pintle 12. The cover is held securely in its open and closedpositions by a stiff flat spring 13 that is secured by a screw 1 1 on astud 15 on the butt-plate in line with the studs 10 and 11. The mannerin which the spring serves to hold the cover in its open and closedpositions is plainly shown in Figs. 6 and 8.

The edge of the cover plate 7 is beveled, as shown at 16, to cause it tofit snugly in the butt-plate slot 6; and for convenience in opening thecover the butt-plate is suitably recessed opposite the hinge, as shownat 17, so that the cover plate can be easily caught and raised by athumb or finger.

The portion of the stock above the cartridge clip pocket a may beprovided with a relatively long opening 18 for retaining a jointedcleaning-rod 19. The butt-plate has an opening 20 registering with theopening 18; and a circular cover plate 21 is provided for controllingthe opening. A practically rectangular head 22 extending from the upperedge of the cover is hinged by a pintle 23 between opposite studs 2 1 onthe butt-plate; and a flat spring 25 that engages the head 22 is securedon a lug 26 near tl ge top of the butt-plate, and the spring serves tohold the plate 21 in its open and closed posit-ions.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is 1. The combination with a gun stock having a cartridgeclip chamber in its butt end, of a butt-plate having a correspondingopening, a cover plate therefor, a lug formed on the side and midway ofthe length of the cover plate and having shoulders one of which isparallel with and the other at right angles to the cover plate, a slotin the buttplate to receive such lug, a pair of studs provided on thebutt-plate at opposite sides of said slot, a pintle connecting the lugto said studs, and a fiat spring arranged on the buttplate at the sideof the clip chamber and adapted to press upon the cover plate lug forholding the plate in its closed and open positions, substantially as setforth.

2. The combination with a gun stock having chambers in its butt-end anda buttplate having corresponding openings, of

cover plates therefor, heads formed on the sides of the plates andhaving fiat shoulders,

one of which is parallel and the other at In testimony whereof Ihavesigned my 11) right angles to the cover plate slots in the name tothis specification in the presence of butt-plate to receive such heads,studs at the tWo subscribing Witnesses this 12th. day of sides of theslots, pintles connecting the July, 1909.

32 heads to the studs, and flat springs arranged LAWRENCE F KENNEDYlengthwise of the butt-plate and adapted. to

press upon said heads for holding the plates Witnesses: respectively intheir closed and open posi- H. L. GILBERT, tions, substantially as setforth. H. A. BOWMAN.

